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Två trappor över gården (1950)
Character: Art collector
The rootless, misfit artist Bengt Hallberg escapes from a mental hospital. The head doctor believes him to be a hopeless case and dangerous for the environment. Bengt looks up Inga Larsson, the only person that matters to him.
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Hans officiella fästmö (1944)
Character: N/A
Business manager Ludvig Berndtson desperately needs a fiancée to get rid of an ex-girlfriend. He asks one of his employees, secretary Monica Brandt, to pretend to be his fiancée for a while. She is at first unwilling but desperately needs the money and accepts.
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Hans officiella fästmö (1944)
Character: Otto, Ludvig's uncle
Business manager Ludvig Berndtson desperately needs a fiancée to get rid of an ex-girlfriend. He asks one of his employees, secretary Monica Brandt, to pretend to be his fiancée for a while. She is at first unwilling but desperately needs the money and accepts.
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Ä' vi gifta? (1936)
Character: Maestro O. Toni, fiolinist og komponist
The well-known musician and composer Åke Kjellberg wakes up in a nice Stockholm apartment. He lives in Count Sparvhök's empty home until it gets rented out.
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Sjätte budet (1947)
Character: Krister Ekberg
Jane and Karl have been married for many years. Jane feels trapped in their marriage and takes a lover. She is caught by her daughter Kerstin and forced to leave family and home.
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Herr Husassistenten (1938)
Character: N/A
Vicke Lundin is a car mechanic in a garage where the owner is a brutal and selfish. With him, Vicke argues about the bills the customers have to pay.
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Flickan och djävulen (1944)
Character: "Guffar", travelling salesman
The soul of an evil witch about to be burned is transferred to the child of a pregnant woman in the audience. 19 years later a timid girl arrives at a farm looking for work. The farmer employs her despite his wife's protests. Soon it stands clear that the girl is in fact the evil witch, returned to wreak havoc on the farmer and his family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Främmande hamn (1948)
Character: The man in the fur coat
"Strange Harbor " - A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in Poland, waiting to depart with coal to Sweden. In a tavern in the port a Polish dockworkers tries to tell something to the Swedish sailors, but is rudely turned away by the tavern owner. Later in the evening the port worker is found dead. That same evening one of the Swedish sailors, meets a Jewish woman who has fled Nazi Germany.
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Gatan (1949)
Character: Sven Andreasson
Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic takes effect she sees hallucinatory images. This turns into a flashback of what happened Britt before the accident.
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Mamma tar semester (1957)
Character: Director Sandell
Sylvia returns to Sweden after having lived abroad for six years. She visits her sister Karin, and is shocked to see how her husband and children regard her as a live-in housekeeper. She convinces Karin to take a vacation with her in Stockholm.
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Vägen till Klockrike (1953)
Character: Axne, vagabonde
Bolle gets tired of working at the cigar factory and because of his desire for freedom he takes to the road. He and the other hobos have only one problem and that is the mounted policemen chasing vagrants.
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Kärlekens decimaler (1960)
Character: Nils Fähger
Charlie Gedelius has spent the last years abroad as a golf trainer. In Copenhagen, Denmark, he meets young Lena, who happens to be his brother-in-law's mistress. He goes back to Sweden to meet his sister Astrid. Her son Staffan has borrowed money from a money-lender to pay for an abortion for a girl he has met.
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När kärleken kom till byn (1950)
Character: Teacher Axel Brunell
A new teacher arrives to the small village and he soon stir up some trouble with his modern way of looking at things. He also stir up some amorous feelings among the local women.
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Tre önskningar (1960)
Character: N/A
Oskar and Mona meet when they come to the Academy of Music to see if they have been accepted, he as a piano student, she a singing student. They become a couple and married but soon there are the frictions. Mona gets hundred crowns from her father, because he thinks she has become so charmless. For it, she buys a perfume called Three Wishes.
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Simon syndaren (1954)
Character: Reverend Rickman
After a fist fight, Simon thinks he has killed a man and seek refuge in a religious sect. Saved he discovers that he can heal the sick and disabled. The knowledge of Simon's gifts spread quickly and the sect's leaders exploit the situation.
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Sällskapslek (1963)
Character: Carl Stjernesten
In a magnificent villa a 25-year-old son of Count lives with his family. He falls in love with an elementary school teacher. So does even his father the Count.
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Maria (1947)
Character: Movie director Harry Sörbom
Maria has been fired from her job as a householder with a family in a small town in Sweden. She leaves in anger for Stockholm, aiming for a career as an actress.
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Café Lunchrasten (1954)
Character: Ali Baba
"Lunch- Break Café" - A café in the old Klara district in Stockholm attracts an offbeat clientel. Among those who gather at the café is a prisoner on the run, a prostitute, a journalist and a student who is having an affair with the cafe's waitress. Naturalism.
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Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket (1949)
Character: Director Wiland
Erik, a poor inventor meets the clerk Lillemor and fall in love. Erik's becomes invention is ready for the market. He contacts a director who might be interested. Erik is attracted almost immediately by the director's wife.
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...och alla dessa kvinnor (1944)
Character: Gunnar Skönman
Axel is courting women in large quantities. He increasingly conscious and excessively uses his innate and viable charm, evolving into a pure Don Juan.
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Trots (1952)
Character: N/A
A teacher is so hard on his students that he faces a warning by the school principal. In order to at least improve the strained relationship with his own son, he turns to a priest for advice.
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Nygifta (1941)
Character: Dr. Albert Lundberg
The young architect Gunnar Bergstrand marries the Norwegian Eva, against his parents' wishes.
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Påsk (1968)
Character: Lindqvist
A family in crisis during the holiday of Easter
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Herr Collins äventyr (1943)
Character: N/A
Filip Collin, the elegant small town patron, has suffered from money market concerns due to bankruptcy on foreign exchanges.
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Kungajakt (1944)
Character: N/A
The film takes place in the 1780s. The Russians plan to overthrow Gustav III from the Swedish throne and Lieutenant Rehusen tries to stop them, while fighting for his king, he also fights for his love.
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Onda ögon (1947)
Character: N/A
Per Jonas wife Hedvig is ill and Barbro has been employed to care for her. Per Jonas falls in love with Barbro and in order to live with her, he kills Hedvig.
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Hin och smålänningen (1949)
Character: N/A
Gunnar works at a rail road in the woods and blasts a large boulder. Out of the ashes comes Satan himself - with cloven hoofs and a big mean grin.
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Flicka med melodi (1954)
Character: N/A
The sisters Britta and Ellinor live with their grandfather, music professor Libergius, teacher and leader of the city's orchestra association. In the city there is also a youthful jazz band - to the professor's horror.
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Det vackraste på jorden (1947)
Character: N/A
Bengt, a ship mechanic , and his wife Karin has been relocated to a modern apartment house in Stockholm. On the ground floor is a tobacconist, whose owner Frithiof is also the deputy landlord of the house.
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I rök och dans (1954)
Character: Handlarns Per
Episodic, musical comedy. Povel Ramel company Knäppupp's first film where Martin Ljung plays 16 different roles.
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Dirch Passer vælter byen (1954)
Character: Captain Jacob Grönkvist
The scam artist Jens Nielsen is in prison. In exchange for a cigarette, he is told by fellow prisoner, Sture Kaxe, that he has a precious jewel worth SEK 100,000 hidden away.
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Med glorian på sned (1957)
Character: Karl Anton
A secretary at a publishing company, Birgitta, writes a novel, based on her secret love of her boss. She sends it anonymously to her own company, who decides to publish it. The book becomes a success. Birgitta's husband's mistress get hold of the script and confesses that *she* wrote the novel. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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En fästman i taget (1952)
Character: Adolf Lundkvist, handelsresande i damunderkläder
Lilian is engaged to engineer Arne. To make him more interested in her, she meets a few other men.
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Spöke på semester (1951)
Character: Borgkrona
"Ghost on Holiday" - Stockholm 1950 is experiencing a gold rush, after the discovery of gold during the building of the new underground. Assistant Borgkrona (Järrell) owns a plot in the gold area. The lawyer Målbrott informs Borgkrona that he has inherited a haunted castle and must stay there for a fortnight. However, once at the castle he meets his old relative who is a ghost (Järrell) and the two trade places
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Drömsemester (1952)
Character: Porter / Police / Newspaper editor / Landlady / Customs officer / Gipsy / Gentleman
The Danish school teacher Mogens Jensen is on his holiday through Sweden in a rickety T-Ford.
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Oppåt med Gröna Hissen (1952)
Character: Billy Forsberg
A man and a woman are cheated on by their respective partners and decide to get their revenge.
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Den glade skomakaren (1955)
Character: Strömbäck, usurer
Sture and Birgit are secretly engaged. One day when they are kissing, they are discovered by Sture's father Dana. However, he promises not to reveal anything, as Sture would probably lose his job on Birgit's father Hjalle's shipyard. When Hjalle is forced by a usurer to pay back 23,000 on a loan, he gets problem. Dana promises to solve the problem, the question is just how. There is only one person that could help him, his childhood friend Gösta Hägg that nowadays is the director of a big company. But time passes quickly, and where is Mr. Hägg ...?
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13 stolar (1945)
Character: Strand
Filip Palm works as a clerk. His hobby is creating inventions of different sorts. He has just received a big inheritance and has fallen in love with Gun Svärdsjö.
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Kärlek, solsken och sång (1948)
Character: Narrator / Man in Bathrobe
Two photographers from Stockholm go to the west coast on behalf of their employer, who is a swimwear manufacturer. They will look for the season's most beautiful bathing girl, but it will be harder than they think to find the ideal model.
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Hanna i societén (1940)
Character: N/A
When the old colonel Hummerborg dies, he leaves his fortune and estate to his trusted housemaid Hanna. But the colonel's relatives try everything to have the last will canceled.
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Biljett till paradiset (1962)
Character: Director Lund
A young woman owns a garden center outside Stockholm. Her two employees, a Swede and an Italian, has private dreams and desires to meet. The Italian plan to take revenge on a fellow countryman.
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Larsson i andra giftet (1935)
Character: N/A
Lasse Larsson works as a baker at the bakery Gyllene Trappen in Stockholm. He loves to sing while he bakes.
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Raggen - det är jag det (1936)
Character: N/A
Maria, who's called Raggen, is one of a total of 9 daughters in the family. For a birthday present, Raggen gets a trip to Paris.
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Hennes melodi (1940)
Character: N/A
Sonja meet Curt in a taxi cab. By mistake, each believes that the other is a rich member of the upper class. They meet on a date, but since neither wants to reveal the truth about themselves, they both get more and more caught in the web of lies they have produced.
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...som en tjuv om natten (1940)
Character: N/A
Nisse Ekberg is in San Francisco but wants to get back to Sweden. Not being a completely honest guy, he gets mixed up with another person and assumes his identity.
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Lattjo med Boccaccio (1949)
Character: Sten Rampe / Dioneo / Selabeatto / Stig Järrel
The theater director Sten Rampe, Svend Blom and Ulrik Blad are on their way to Sten's summer house and suddenly get a flat tire. The fate brings them together with seven young women whose car has fallen out for the same accident.
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Fästmö uthyres (1950)
Character: Major Pålman
A secretary transforms their defunct legal agency into a service where you can get anything, from childcare to gardening to even a fiancée.
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Litet bo (1956)
Character: N/A
Hasse has received a scholarship from the insurance company where he works together with his friend Lennart. They both travel to Vienna so that Hasse can take a few days off, while Lennart attends lectures about insurance. While away, Lennart has rented his room to a girl, Alva. When he returns home earlier than expected, they have to share the apartment a few days...
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Syndare i filmparadiset (1956)
Character: N/A
Set during 1930's Stockholm, a portrayal about the birth of Europa Films - featuring over thirty segments from other movies, including one color scene from Klockorna i Gamla sta'n (1946).
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Enslingen Johannes (1957)
Character: Enslingen Johannes
Johannes live a lonesome life in the archipelago and use to have on the air phone calls with Gösta Bernhard on the radio.
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Enslingen i blåsväder (1959)
Character: N/A
The lonesome Johannes gets a phone call from Gösta Bernhard who wants to come over to him for a vacation in the archipelago.
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Tofflan (1967)
Character: N/A
An engineer and an actor, two extremely similar men, change their identity with each other.
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I dag gifter sig min man (1943)
Character: N/A
Mette divorced from her husband, the architect Sven, a year ago. But her feelings for him are still strong. When she hears about Sven getting married to Vera she can't avoid to interfer.
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Det är min modell (1946)
Character: N/A
Dora moves in with the artist Erik to become his model. Three men from a Masonic Order pretends to be interested in his art, but Dora is their real focus.
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Livat på luckan (1951)
Character: N/A
Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.
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Åke klarar biffen (1952)
Character: N/A
Åke is small and fits everywhere. A film mostly consisting of scenes from older films.
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Vara eller inte vara (1952)
Character: N/A
"Be Or Not To Be" - The devil and his grandmother pose a problem for humanity by making it forget the word "wholesale". Chaos arises until a newspaper editor remembers the word.
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Poker (1951)
Character: Mr. Alkeryd a.k.a. The Spider
Sven Bergström is charged with murder, alternatively a man slaughter, on an infamous professional poker player called "The Rover". The trial is in progress. In retrospect, we witness Svens life until the time of the crime.
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Skådetennis (1945)
Character: Himself
Tennis competitions between Swedish actors at Saltsjöbaden.
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Minns ni? (1993)
Character: (archive footage)
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
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Stig Järrel 80 år (1990)
Character: Self
A documentary made to celebrate Stig Järrel's 80th birthday, clips of old performances are mixed with new interviews with Järrel and colleagues.
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Kanske En Gentleman (1950)
Character: Stig Järrel
After watching Stig Järrel star in a production of Pygmalion Mister Haglund bets him that he can turn anyone into a gentlemen in a few months.
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Nattbarn (1956)
Character: N/A
A man meets prisoner Nils Gustaf Boman and asks him why he strayed from the straight and narrow. The prisoner says: "Put yourself in my position." The man does and sees before him himself as Nils Gustaf Boman.
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Livet går vidare (1941)
Character: Kristensson (uncredited)
The Swedish officer Mikael Bourg has served with the French army in Africa. When he returns to Sweden after many years abroad to recover from malaria, he meets his son, a student who prefers partying with his frat friends instead of his bank job; a disappointment in his father's eyes. He also meets a young librarian, Ebba Garland, which makes him feel young again and distracts him from the sickness.
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Romans (1940)
Character: N/A
An engineer with a factory is on the brink of ruin. A greedy director offers to buy his mill. Instead, the engineer opens a hotel. With little success. A rumor has that Greta Garbo is expected at the hotel.
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Vi mötte stormen (1943)
Character: N/A
Documentary footage mixed with acted scenes portray events of the Second World War from a Swedish perspective.
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Den osynliga muren (1944)
Character: Victor Reis
"The Invisble Wall" - In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.
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Den ynkryggen Valdemar (1980)
Character: Gunnar Emanuelsson
The consultant at a mental hospital receives a visit from one of the hospital's female doctors after a vacation trip. A client, Valdemar, has made improper advances and she's confused.
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Säg det med blommor (1952)
Character: N/A
Kirre buys a flower for his fiancee Gun on the anniversary of their engagement. Gun's mother, an illusion-free elderly lady, believes that this attention will disappear when they marry.
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Med dej i mina armar (1940)
Character: Felix Tallgren
Millionaire Krister Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets his ex-wife and immediately fall in love with her again. She does not know what to believe, is it true or is it only a joke? He also discovers how he has mismanaged his company in his earlier life.
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Som folk är mest (1944)
Character: Enander
Kurre and Inga are engaged to be married. However, as they are very poor, they can't afford it just yet. They live separate, both in small apartments with a friend. Inga works at an office and Kurre at a small factory. Inga has a liability to be late in the mornings and this gets her into some trouble at the office, because of her very strict boss. This, along with the fact that another girl starts to court Kurre puts their relationship to the test, a crisis which is easier said than done to solve.
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Iris och löjtnantshjärta (1946)
Character: Harald
Robert, an upper-class officer, meets and falls in love with Iris, a house maid. His family will do anything to stop her from marrying him.
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Bröllopsdagen (1960)
Character: Narrator
Anders and Sylvia are set to be married, but Sylvia says 'no' and runs away at the altar.
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Trolltider (1979)
Character: Gorm
Under the stairs to the human beings house lives Vätten. He has a nice view of the forest where the little trolls lives.
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Det brinner en eld (1943)
Character: Paul Winter
An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.
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Motorkavaljerer (1950)
Character: Major Eggert
An inventive store assistant becomes a major motorcycle racing star.
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Gustav III (1974)
Character: Pechlin
Based on play by famous swedish author/playwright August Strindberg adapted for swedish TV in 70's. It's about the real life assassination on swedish king Gustav III who was killed by a lieutenant Jacob Johan Anckarström who acted on behalf of a group conspirators.
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Levande bilder (1973)
Character: The priest
A film based on Fritiof Nilsson Piraten's short story "Lefvande bilder" - a story about when the movies came to the author's childhood village.
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Ratataa eller The Staffan Stolle Story (1956)
Character: Ulf Christer Lefverhielm
Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.
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Fröken Vildkatt (1941)
Character: Jimmy Cronklinga
Thomas Palm (Åke Söderblom) has recently been promoted at work at The Royal Canal Office. He celebrates with his friends on a night out and on the way home he saves a woman from drowning. The woman's name is Dolly (Marguerite Viby), an out of work actress, who won't leave his side and this gets him into trouble when he is about to get married in a couple of days.
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Blondin i fara (1957)
Character: Kreuger - Drug Lord
A reporter (Mark Miller) tries to help a drug-addicted cabaret dancer (Anita Thallaug) who has criminal ties to the Swedish underworld.
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Som du vill ha mej (1943)
Character: Dr. Holm
The architect Gösta complains to Dr. Holm about his wife Gunilla's introverted character. Holm proposes a drug that will make her more outgoing.
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Peggy på vift (1946)
Character: Frank Bing
Frank Bing is a big artist in the USA and arrives home in his native Sweden with his secretary Ada. The portier at the hotel has great difficulties keeping the adoring fans away from Frank. Among them is Peggy Dalin who has been tasked by her father with getting Frank to sign with his record company using her great charm.
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Vi två (1939)
Character: Baltzar Ekberg
Architect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his wife Kristina. He gets a position with an old friend, Balstar Ekberg, who has a big engineering job going. But Sture gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's wife, Helena.
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Sköna Helena (1951)
Character: Hector
Intrigues and entanglements before Prince Paris wins the heart of beautiful Helena. It all happens in the small kingdom of Arcadia at the time of the Trojan War. Swedish version of Jacques Offenbach's operetta of the classic Greek myth.
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Vi tre (1940)
Character: Baltsar Ekberg
Kristina and Sture is married and has a little baby boy, Olle. Sture is an architect and while he is struggling with his business, his wife Kristina gets lonesome and starts to get take an interest in Sture's Norwegian architect colleague, Arne Ranck.
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Jag är eld och luft (1944)
Character: Pharmacist Edvind Franzen, Jenny's first husband
Vicar Ahrman's young daughter Jenny has left the home to start a new life with her beloved Stefan. But Jenny's dreams for the future is shattered when Stefan doesn't turn up to their meeting. Heartbroken, she returns home.
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Sjunde himlen (1956)
Character: Sture Tureson
"Seventh Heaven" - Famous radio personality Willy Lorens has a big success with the radio series "Seventh Heaven." The amount of fan mail and attention eventually becomes too much for Willy, who suffers a minor collapse. Taken to a hospital where he meets Dr. Lovisa Sundelius, virtually the only woman in Sweden who do not admire the radio idol.
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Lustgården (1961)
Character: Ludvig Lundberg
A small picturesque town at the turn of the century. The conservative views of the townspeople are shaken when they find out that the school teacher Franzén published his own poetry anonymously many years ago. At the same time he acknowledges his love affair with a waitress at the city hotel, Fanny. What is most upsetting is the fact that Fanny has a grownup daughter, Anna, with no known father. Could their poet teacher be the father although he and Fanny are not married?
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Flicka utan namn (1954)
Character: The fur trader
A girl has been found murdered in her apartment. But who killed her and why? Through a series of flashbacks, the police investigation unfolds the murder mystery.
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Lyckan kommer (1942)
Character: Georg Hedberg
The idle rich have their own particular problems. Case in point, Georg and Monika Hedberg were once poor and happy but since Georg became an established painter family bliss has decreased for every fur coat Monika has bought. Their divorce lawyer suggest that they try to save their marriage by moving to a small apartment and live life frugally but happy. When the trial period is over and they want to return home again, their lawyer has stolen their money and disappeared. The Hedbergs are evicted for unpaid rent and terminal poverty seem to be imminent.
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Synd (1948)
Character: Brust
Fredrik seduces the office girl Anna. She becomes helplessly passionately in love. Fredrik cheat Anna of all her savings. He intends to manufacture beauty products. To market the product he forge the signature of a wealthy aunt of Anna.
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Resan till dej (1953)
Character: Bruno Vikström
The marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes a breakthrough.
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Lyckliga Vestköping (1937)
Character: Rolf Gånge
When the mine is closing down in the small community of Vestköping the town bank is also in danger. Sudden news of the return of one of the town's inhabitants who had emigrated to the USA and is said to be very wealthy improves spirits of everyone.
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Excellensen (1944)
Character: Major Monk
Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.
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Vandring med månen (1945)
Character: The Vagabonde
Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he meets a traveling theater company who has run out of money. He falls in love with the young actress Pia and together they leave, meeting a string of peculiar characters: a vagabond, a friendly vicar and a cynical adventurer.
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Samvetsömma Adolf (1936)
Character: Anton
Operetta singer Adolf Berg will be called up for military duty just as he gets assigned a major role in an operetta. On the train he meets Ulla Wern and complications occur.
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Lågor i dunklet (1942)
Character: Birger Sjögren
Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?
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Skattefria Andersson (1954)
Character: Gustav Andersson, kallad Skattefria Andersson
Andersson is always complaining about high taxes and dreams about a world with no taxes.
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Sjösalavår (1949)
Character: Carmencita's father
The Troubadour sits at a rock beside his summerhouse Sjösala in the Stockholm archipelago. He is composing a new ballad, when his son Sven Bertil interrupts him, telling him that an angry man is knocking at their door. It is the creditor Andersson, coming with a new unpaid bill to be put on the top of all the other. The Troubadour is tired of all economical problems. It disturbs the peace he needs to be able to write new songs, and without new songs he cannot earn the money he needs to pay the bills. To get peace and inspiration for his writing, he makes a quick decision to go to Buenos Aires. By phone he persuades his publisher to prepay 7000 kronor for some future book. On the little ferry from the islands in the sea to Stockholm city the Troubadour is carried away by his imagination into the fictitious world of his main character Fritiof Andersson. Colorful scenes from various songs are enacted before his dreaming eyes. In Stockholm he spends the night at the inn Gyldene Freden. ...
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Fröken Chic (1959)
Character: Urbáhn
Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. Watching a TV quiz show, Carell discovers a prodigal singer, Isabella Linder, and offers her a contract. But she is unwilling and would like to remain a school teacher.
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Dårskapens hus (1951)
Character: Birger Sjögren
In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions
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Var sin väg (1948)
Character: Nils Brenner
A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she married. When she resumes her acting career the marriage crashes.
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Flottans Muntergökar (1955)
Character: Captain Rickard
Bob and Bernard serve as lieutenants on a cruiser. They intend to enjoy themselves.
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Första divisionen (1941)
Character: Lieutenant Sperling
The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at its hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.
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Lev farligt (1944)
Character: Otto Frank
Iben Holt, a rich bohemian, lives in an occupied country. On his way home from a party he hears an explosion and sees flames rising from a factory. At home awaits another surprise.
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Aldrig i livet (1957)
Character: Fencer
Lars Ekborg and Sven Eric Gamble portray bumbling criminals who get involved in a safe-cracking heist.
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Den vita katten (1950)
Character: Algot
A man comes to Stockholm's central station. He does not know who he is or where he has been. He has some keys and a phone number. Perhaps he is the escaped sex maniac the police are searching for. A waitress at a café tries to help him.
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Herre med portfölj (1943)
Character: Manager Bexell
Rolf Berger, a hard working and dutiful deputy judge at the court of appeal, has been married for many years with Eva. She has long ago accepted that he spends his evenings with his legal work. Rolf Berger has been invited to the 25th anniversary of his graduation and starts to reconsider the kind of life he lives. When he meets the 19-year old Inger he falls in love with her and decide to leave his wife.
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Valborgsmässoafton (1935)
Character: Grane
Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg's wife won't have any children, and when she becomes pregnant she has an illegal abortion. For some reason, Lena's father believes that it is Lena who has had an abortion.
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Djävulens öga (1960)
Character: Satan
The devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter. To get rid of it, he sends Don Juan up from hell to seduce the 20 year old Britt-Marie and to rob her of her virginity and her belief in love. She however can resist him and things get even turned around when Don Juan falls in love with her. The fact that he feels love for the first time now, makes him even less attractive to her and Don Juan returns to hell.
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Medan porten var stängd (1946)
Character: En kund hos Bojan
The film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.
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Rötägg (1946)
Character: Björn "Mankan" Mander
Olga Sundbom is divorced and has custody of her spoiled son Krister. The lack of upbringing has made Krister an intolerable petty gangster. He is therefore put in a boarding school in a smaller town, and his getting in is due to a scam he himself is responsible for. Soon he turns the little idyll upside down.
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Rätten att älska (1956)
Character: Bernhard Borg
Priests who call sex education the devil's invention rage against the progressive doctor whose bigoted wife may regret when his teenage daughter comes home and wants an abortion. The subject of Mimi Pollack's only feature film was controversial. The model for Doctor Borg was the well-known Katrineholms lecturer Torsten Wickbom, who advocated modern sexual education in the school and family.
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Hets (1944)
Character: Caligula
Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway. When Caligula learns that Jan-Erik is having an affair with Bertha, he begins to torture his student psychologically. He reserves his cruelest behavior for Bertha, however, which results in a tragic turn of events.
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Fram för lilla Märta eller På livets ödesvägar (1945)
Character: Sture / Märta
An out-of-work musician is desperate for work and when his best friend sees an add requesting a cellist he signs him up. However, the work is for a female, so he creates the character Märta Letterström and joins the trio at a small-town hotel. But being a woman is not as easy as you think.
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Fartfeber (1953)
Character: Chief Constable
Gunnar and Ulf are neighbors. They are both lured into a life of crime.
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Gomorron Bill! (1945)
Character: Julle Spant
Land owner Bill Bärnfelt sees a beautiful woman when he is out riding and immediately falls in love. But then his former fiancee turns up and makes a fuss.
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I dödens väntrum (1946)
Character: Martin Dahlberg
The Swedish doctor of literature Vilhelm Canitz arrive to Lugano in Italy for a few weeks stay at a medical clinic. Canitz considers himself to be quite healthy and the stay as an extended vacation. He meets a number of patients at the clinic suffering of terminal illnesses, including Vellamo Toivonen (Lindfors). The patients deal with the fact that they will not leave the clinic alive in different ways; with self-destruction, denial or imprudence. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Tappa inte sugen (1947)
Character: Valle, author
In a movie studio, a fight scene is underway. The hero, played by Allan Bergner, will make an impression on the heroine, played by Ylva Vendel. But Allan is not prepared to give more than one pale hint of fight; he wants to be presentable in later scenes as well. The director wears his hair.
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Pippi Långstrump (1949)
Character: Albin Rosén
In a small town lies Villa Villerkulla, and in that villa a small girl, Pippi Longstocking, has moved in with her horse and monkey.
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Himmel och pannkaka (1959)
Character: Sture Turesson
Sequel to Sjunde himlen (1956). Dr. Lovisa Sundelius (Sickan Carlsson) and radio host Willy Lorens (Hasse Ekman) have been happily married for a couple of years, but when Willy becomes a TV host with cutie Suss (Lena Granhagen) by his side, things start to fall apart
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Lille Fridolf och jag (1956)
Character: Ludde
Fridolf and his wife Selma gets a telegram from their daughter Maggan. She is engaged and are her way home to show her little baby.
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Ljuvlig är sommarnatten (1961)
Character: Sebastian Petrén, managing director
Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects...
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Karin Månsdotter (1954)
Character: Olof Gustavsson Stenbock
Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king's skilled counsellor Göran Persson wants a royal policy supporting the people and supported by it. But in relation to the nobility the king oscillates between provocative strength and unpredictable weakness. Göran arranges that some very powerful noblemen are killed. Subsequently the king tries to have them convicted of high treason by the parliament. He forgets the manuscript, mixes up all facts, and the noblemen are acquitted. But Göran speedily gathers another parliament and has them convicted. Meanwhile Erik apologises because of the unjust murders. Hence Erik is dethroned and imprisoned. Göran is executed. Karin is restricted to a castle in Finland. In the prison Erik believes that he is still the king and gives the guards presents such as all fishes in the Baltic Sea.
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Rasmus, Pontus och Toker (1956)
Character: Sword-swallower Alfredo
Ten-year-old Rasmus, his friend Pontus and his dog Toker, find out about a silver theft in the small town where they live. Family film from Astrid Lindgren's radio series.
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